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Sienna van Rossum, PhD Candidate, Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University

This year, make a commitment to understanding your world better: practise the art of slow looking

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We are in a rapidly changing visual culture where it is increasingly inadequate to take images at face value.

There is an ever-increasing prevalence of image manipulation and AI imagery. And in the attention economy, our attention has become a precious, sought-after resource. Images participate in this redirection of our attention with an endless production line of new, stimulating content to maximise user engagement.

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